Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-03-03
COUNTY NEWS
WRINKLES FROM the REpuBLIc,

WRINKLES FROM THE REPUBLIC.
John B. Chase is our present road COM
missioner. and promises to be as efficient
in this line Of public duty as in teaching
the young idea how to shoot.
1t is nip and tuck" between the book
agents. map peddlers. the old maids. the
sage grass" and bamboo briars as to
which shall own the Republic and the
f~ullness thereof.
DIR. Dobson is having a perfect mono
ply in supplying all the citizens living
within walking and riding distance Of
Broylesville with greens. We know his
crosses in juxtaposition to jowl are sim
ply superb. for we have tried them.
John Keebler has bought several small
lots Of cattle Of our farmers recently.
James W. Deaderick, jr., has rented.
and is now occupying the Mitchell prop.
erty at Brownsboro.
The Taylor boys will move their steam
saw mill to the Asbury neighborhood in
about q month.
A good many of our tobacco planters
took advantage Of the dry spell in Janu-
airy and burnt their seed beds. The 9TH
ers are waiting anxiously for another dry
spell for the same purpose.
No sooner had Bob Taylor launched his
administration than he gave the ma
chine to understand that he was the
helmsman. His inaugural address was
weak in that it was nothing more than a
repetition of the usual glittering generali-
ties, but his message discarded the high
falutin' and got down to business. His
flop" In espousing the just and correct
principle Of national aid to popular edu-
cation, surprises all, delights the Repub.
licans. but the Bourbons "cuss him from
who laid the top rail-" This wide, bold
departure from the silted, venerable in
antics of the Resolutions of '9S and the
antedeluvian heresies of King Harris 6
Co., is a tribute to Bob's good sense and
sound judgment. 1t is not 10 be denied
that Bob's course in reference to the Blair
bill is grossly inconsistent, but it Is far
better to be Inconsistent than to be wrong
and do wrong. The machine, at the in
stance of the King, will wreak its ven.
geance upon him In an unstinted meas
ure, and the party serfs, who love dark
ness rather than light and depend upon q
little three or four months district school
sustained by the public funds for the edu.
cation of their children, will denounce
him In the b%itterest terms. But Bob has
Joined the procession all the same.
S. r. Piper has sold his valuable little
river farm to George Stanton. "Sid" has
had the Western fever for a long time,
and we suppose will now cure himself
with a large dose of Horace Greeley's nd.
vice.
Samuel McAlister, who sold his fine
farm near Washington College to Azor
Miller, Of Limestone, is now a citizen OF
Georgia.
The high wind last Thursday night did
considerable damage. demolishing roofs,
telling timber and blowing down fences
l.. Fl. Waddill's carp pond, made by
damming a large spring, has proved
t success. 1t contains a number of flnny
beauties, whose average weight is four o.
five pounds.
The tax delinquents are daily and hour
ly expecting the judgment In the form Of
the collecting constable.
The suit instituted in the circuit cour
by James and Emery Mauk against the
owners Of a fish trap below Mauk's fore
will be the means of furnishing legal in
formation concerning riparian rights
water privileges, navigation laws. OBJ
structions of water ways, and injuries tt
private and public rights.
The recent cyclone demolished Eide
Murphy's saw mill on the river.
| The reported sale Of q part of tn,
shares in the Embreeville Iron propert,
and the prospect of an early revival o
; business at that point is causing the own
: ers Of mountain lands to look after thei
titles and establish their boundaries.
The writer found on his farm a large
Indian chopping axe that will weigh sew
eral pounds. 1t is a perfect specimen o
} Indian workmanship in stone.
Some people say that the fruit is killed
others say 1t is not hurt, and between then
, all we know nothing about it.
) Several of u farmers will plant a con
siderable acreage in melons.
One temperance advocate expresses |
q in this wise: The compensation bill, alon,
side with the prohibition amendment, |
5 about as contemplate q fraud as the In
. genuity of human depravity could wei
4 conceive, and the Legislature which woul,
enact into q law such an outrage upol
justice and common decency, ought to b
p~enitentiaried for life. 1t is on o par wit